Asunción Molinos Gordo

In her practice, Molinos questions the categories that define “innovation” in mainstream discourses today, exploring the different forms of dominance in the intellectual enquire from the urban to the rural.  

She employs installation, photography, video, sound and other media to examine the rural realm driven by a strong desire to understand the value and complexity of its cultural production, as well as the burdens that keeps it invisible and marginalized, often disregarded as folkloric or mythological.  

The main focus of her work is contemporary peasantry. Her understating of the figure of the small or medium farmer is not merely as food producer but as cultural agent, responsible for both perpetuating traditional knowledge and for generating new expertise to meet current challenges. She has produced work reflecting on land usage, nomad architecture, farmers strikes, bureaucracy on territory, transformation of rural labour, biotechnology and global food trade.  

Asunción won the Sharjah Biennial Prize 2015 with her project WAM (World Agriculture Museum). Her work has been exhibited at venues including MUSAC (León), CA2M (Madrid) Matadero (Madrid), La Casa Encendida (Madrid) ARNOLFINI (Bristol), Delfina Foundation (London) The Townhouse Gallery (Cairo) Darat Al Funun (Amman) among others. Molinos is currently represented by Travesia Cuatro gallery.  

She lives and works between Egypt, Oman and Spain.

http://www.asuncionmolinos.com/index_uk.html